[amsat-bb] Is This AMSAT's Future?

[Greg D]

Besides Doppler shift, which would definitely be a problem, there's also
the WiFi protocol itself.  It's designed for short range communication,
and some of the low level protocol timers need to be adjusted for
working in WAN applications such as AREDN.  I suspect that getting them
to work over orbital distances might be an ack retry too far.

Greg  KO6TH


Stephen DeVience via AMSAT-BB wrote:
> It's interesting that there are amateur satellite allocations in the 2.4
> GHz and 5 GHz ranges as well. A number of groups are doing ham internet on
> those frequencies using modified routers. This might be an option for some
> kind of digital satellite, although dealing with doppler could be a
> problem. I can envision an amateur version of Starlink.
>
> -Stephen, N8URE
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